We're again all sf today, starting with the news coming from 'Deadline' that one of our most anticipated of the upcoming TV series Amazon's and Richard Madden's STRANGE NEW THINGS has just cast Haley Joel Osment in one of the roles!

STRANGE NEW THINGS is based on Michel Faber's book set in the near
future, when Earth is becoming unsustainable. Richard Madden stars as
Peter, a priest who is sent into space to help found a new colony, but
what he ends up discovering not only puts his faith to the test but life
as we know it. Osment will play Sy, a man who used to grow large
quantities of marijuana before being recruited to work on the new colony
as chief botanist.

INTENSE 'LIFE' SF TRAILER

RYAN REYNOLDS, REBECCA FERGUSON & JAKE GYLLENHAAL

Monday brings us the first trailer for sf thriller out next year LIFE starring Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson! It follows a six member crew of the International Space Station that is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the crew begins to conduct research, their methods end up having unintended consequences and the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.

Sunday, October 30, 2016

What do you do when Hollywood Spy reaches 5 million visitors? I guess you SING like all these adorable animals are doing in the new animated movie we're spotlighting today with the new character posters! Coming from Illumination Entertainment it will bring music to cinemas this December featuring more than 85 classic pop tracks from famous artists!

SING YOUR TAIL OUT! In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, a koala named Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) works to keep his theatre from closing down. To this end, Buster and his sheep friend Eddie (John C. Reilly)
hold a singing contest to raise money, and the entire town auditions
for a part in the show. The leading five are an overworked pig named
Rosita (Reese Witherspoon) with her pig partner named Gunter (Nick Kroll), an arrogant and gambling white mouse named Mike (Seth MacFarlane), a punk rock porcupine named Ash (Scarlett Johansson), a timid teenage elephant named Meena (Tori Kelly), and a British gorilla named Johnny (Taron Egerton), who wants to sing instead of following his family's criminal footsteps.

STELLAR VOICE CAST

The exquisitely stellar voice cast includes Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, an optimistic koala, who plans to save his theatre from closure by holding a singing competition; Reese Witherspoon as Rosita, a domestic pig, who gave up her teenage music dreams to become a devoted wife of Norman, and mother to 25 piglets;
Seth MacFarlane as Mike, a white jazz mouse with a big Frank Sinatra-esque voice and an arrogant attitude;
Scarlett Johansson as Ash, a crested porcupine punk rocker who takes part in an alternative rock music group with her boyfriend;
John C. Reilly as Eddie, a Suffolk sheep, and Buster's partner that doubts the future of the theatre; Tori Kelly as Meena, a teenage Indian elephant with an exquisite voice, and severe stage fright;
Taron Egerton as Johnny, an English accented mountain gorilla, who wants to sing, but his father wants him to follow his family’s criminal footsteps;
Nick Kroll as Gunter, Rosita's German accented, very optimistic and bubbly dance partner;
Nick Offerman as Norman, a domestic pig and Rosita's oblivious husband;
Garth Jennings as Miss Crawl, an elderly green iguana who is Buster's assistant and offers Johnny piano lessons;
Jennifer Saunders as Miss Nana Noodleman! Rea Perlman also lends her voice to one of the characters in the hilarious animated movie!

Now here's a new role for Girl on the Train and White Queen star Rebecca Ferguson: as 'Deadline' reports she will lead Justin Chadwick directed THE LADY AND THE PANDA movie!

The film is based on Ruth Harkness’ original detailed correspondence.
When, as the 1930s New York socialite, she lost her wealthy husband
unexpectedly, she took over his expedition to China. Ignoring the
dictates of society, she joined forces with an unproven but dashing
Chinese guide with whom she travelled down the Yangtze and deep into the
uncharted Himalayas where they rescued an orphaned baby panda. When
Ruth took it back to the U.S., she created a nationwide sensation but
before long realized the animals are best preserved in their natural
habitat.

SERGEI BODROV TO HELM

NEW 'SAMSON AND DELILAH' He almost won an Oscar for his movie on Genghis Khan, but now,
Russian film maker Sergei Bodrov is returning to the epic genre with
SAMSON AND DELILAH! He will direct the epic adventure movie adaptation
of Ze’ev Jabotinsky's bestseller! The cast is currently being assembled
for a movie which should start shooting next summer in Africa. Bodrov,
who has other epic movie experiences since he also helmed Ben Barnes and
Kit Harington in Seventh Son epic fantasy a few years ago, will shoot a
movie on Samson, a fierce warrior, a wise judge, and a brave defender
of his people. As 'Deadline' reports, Jabotinsky’s book brings a unique
interpretation of the Biblical story which empowers Samson with
supernatural strength, yet at the same time never losing sight of the
character’s human qualities.

TOM CRUISE TO GO EPIC

AS LEGENDARY 'METHUSELAH'

Speaking of epic projects of Biblical proportions and budget, Warner Bros. has just brought another foreign movie Oscar nominee Joachim Ronning(Kon Tiki), who recently finished Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Talesfor Disney, to direct Tom Cruise in the epic adventure movie on legendary METHUSELAH, a man who lived for almost 1,000 years without ageing, developing a set of unparalleled survival skills during his life. Tom Cruise is obviously in the mood for epic adventures, which is unusual for him since he usually does contemporary action flicks, as he has just finished shooting THE MUMMY reboot in which he leads the cast.

We're going sf today, people, for the end of the week, starting with the info coming from Doug Liman who will direct the big screen adaptation of UNEARTHED sf adventure novel from These Broken Stars authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner, whose first part is out in bookshops next year.

UNEARTHED is a sf YA thriller described as Lara Croft meets Indiana
Jones, set in deep space. Jules Addison and Amelia Radcliffe join forces
in a tomb raiding race on a newly discovered planet to unravel the
secrets of an ancient, long- extinct civilization ... only to uncover a
revelation that could spell the end of the human race.

'COLD SKIN' THRILLER WITH

DAVID OAKES & RAY STEVENSON

Meanwhile, you can also check out the first poster and first photos from period set fantasy thriller adventure COLD SKIN starring our most beloved Borgias, Victoria and Pillars of the Earth most charismatic star David Oakes and Ray Stevenson. Directed by Xavier Gens (The Divide) it should hit cinemas sometime next year and we are still anxiously waiting for a first trailer! It is based on a book written by Albert Sanchez Pinol!

COLD SKIN has a story set on the edge of the Antartic Circle, in the
years after World War I, where a steam ship approaches a desolate island
far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to
assume the lonely post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a
year at the end of the world. But on shore he finds no trace of the man
whom he has been sent to replace, just a deranged castaway who has
witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is forest, a deserted
cabin, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. And then the night
begins to fall...

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

While you can currently enjoy the tabloid articles on how she organized a perfect 40 birthday celebration for her husband Ryan Reynolds, gorgeous Blake Lively is looking to continue her slate of very unique movies after Age of Adeline and The Shallows with ALL I SEE IS YOU which has just got an August 2017 release date!

ALL I SEE IS YOU follows a blind woman (Blake Lively) and her husband
(Jason Clarke). When her sight unexpectedly returns, she begins to
discover the previously unseen and disturbing details about themselves,
their marriage and their lives.

'THE TERRANAUTS'

TO BECOME SF TV SERIES In TV news, CW is going to make a new sf series by adapting T.C.
Boyle's novel THE TERRANAUTS, which is by the way out today, for the
small screens with Jim Parson's producing. The Terranauts is described
as an epic story of science, society, sex, survival and, ultimately,
human folly and ambition. Partly inspired by the real life Biosphere 2
experiment, the story revolves around eight scientists enlisted to run a
biosphere that will prove vital for humanity’s survival in an off-Earth
colony. Their goal is to successfully create a sustainable environment
to house generations to come, but things don’t quite go as planned.

'COME AND FIND ME' TRAILER

STARRING AARON PAUL!

Speaking of relationship mysteries, you will see those in the trailer for Aaron Paul's COME AND FIND ME as well which is out November. David (Paul) and Claire’s (Annabelle Wallis) idyllic relationship comes to an abrupt and mysterious end after Claire disappears without a trace. Devastated but incapable of letting go, David follows her trail down a frantic and increasingly dangerous path. Shocked at discovering Claire was living a double life, he’s forced to risk everything if he ever wants to see her again.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Good news and bad news, people, Peter Jackson is returning to movie making with his Hobbit and Lord of the Rings team Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, with whom he will produce the big screen adaptation of Philip Reeve's epic novels MORTAL ENGINES, bad news - they're writing the script as well and they might make it as deadly boring as them Hobbitses were! Peter's visual effects expert Christian Rivers will direct!

MORTAL ENGINES is set in a world many thousands of years in the
future. Earth's cities now roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each
other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these
massive Traction Cities, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with
a mysterious young woman from the Outlands who will change the course
of his life forever.

JACK O'CONNELL TO LEAD

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN BIOPIC

There definitely is a resemblance: as news come from Pathé production company, young Brit Jack O'Connell is set to take the lead role in their untitled biopic of scandalous fashion designer ALEXANDER MCQUEEN! Based on late designer's biography Blood Beneath the Skin by Andrew Wilson the movie will be directed by Andrew Haigh! Back in year 2009 McQueen organized one of his greatest shows which featured a reworking of his greatest designs from the past 15 years! It was dedicated to his mother whose death triggered his depression and suicide. The film explores McQueen’s creative process in the months leading up to the show providing an intimate portrait of the man behind the global brand – a moving celebration of a visionary genius whose designs transcended fashion to become art.

Monday, October 24, 2016

Two new posters for you today, starting with the first one for World War II movie ALLIED starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard which should hit cinemas later this November around the world also starring Matthew Goode.

Set in 1942, it sees Brad Pitt playing an intelligence officer in
North Africa who encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a
deadly mission behind enemy lines played by Cotillard. When they reunite
in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war. I must
admit that poster looks cheap as hell and beyond.

NEW 'LION' POSTER

DEV PATEL AND NICOLE KIDMAN

Another touching drama that has just got a new poster is the adaptation of Larry Buttrose novel LION in which Dev Patel plays a grown up version of a five year old Indian boy who gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. Nicole Kidman plays his adoptive mother with David Wenham as the father. The movie will start its release November in North America, in December in Europe and from January in UK and Australia and Germany.

Sunday, October 23, 2016

While Jason Momoa is slowly preparing to rule the aquatic world as Aquaman, he will first patrol the FRONTIER in the new historical scripted epic series which will start airing in Canada on their Discovery Channel from November 6th and sometime later on at Netflix (everywhere around the world except in Canada) as
well, depicting the chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and
power in the North American fur trade in the late 18th century. Today you can check out the first poster for the upcoming series and also some of the cast pictures and as you can see the costumes will feature a lot of fur (worn by beautiful animals and ugly humans) as one needed to protect oneself somehow back in the 18th century from the freezing Canadian winter!

UNTAMED NEW WORLD Told from multiple perspectives, the six episode series takes place
in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close
quarter hatchet fights and where delicate relations between native
tribes and Europeans can spark bloody conflicts. The cast includes Alun Armstrong (Braveheart), Landon Liboiron (Hemlock Grove), Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey), Allan Hawco (The Book of Negroes) and Jessica Matten while Evan Jonigkeit plays Captain Chesterfield, the right hand to Lord Benton (Alun Armstrong) and the nemesis of Declan Harp (Jason Mamoa). He is a vicious man who lives by a code. From humble beginnings he has
become politically motivated in this new and unpredictable world. Merlin's and Dracula's Kathie McGrath also stars taking one of the female roles.

A KINGDOM UNTO ITSELF

The opening episode will see Michael Smyth (Landon Liboiron) landing in the New World on an HBC ship where he is ordered by Lord Benton to venture into the Frontier in search of fur trader Declan Harp, the man responsible for the murder of Benton’s soldiers at a remote outpost.

Saturday, October 22, 2016

As 'Deadline' reports today, the latest one to join the big screen adaptation of A WRINKLE IN TIME is Chris Pine! He will apparently be Mr. Murray, father to the main character Meg, played by Storm Reid, and husband to Dr. Kate Murray played by Gugu Mbatha Raw!

A WRINKLE IN TIME follows a young girl whose government scientist
father has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a
tesseract, which involves being transported to a fifth dimension with
mysterious inhabited planets. She takes part in a search for her father
and sees some incredible creatures along the way.

'NERUDA' TRAILER

WITH GAEL GARCIA BERNAL

From Chile comes the trailer for the movie which will represent them at this year's Oscar nominations race for best foreign film. NERUDA, in which Gael Garcia Bernal plays an inspector charged to hunt down Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco), who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.The movie will have its North American release from December 16th!

Friday, October 21, 2016

This season really did not bring us many multi camera sitcoms, but networks are slowly picking up orders for possible new pilots and one of them, an untitled one, will have a legendary comedian returning to the small screens! As 'Deadline' reports Carol Burnett will star in ABC's pilot for a new sitcom, produced by Amy Poehler, about a family who gets a chance to buy the house of their dreams, a house they’d never be able to afford under normal circumstances, but is able to under extremely abnormal circumstances. They must live with the current owner, an older actress (Burnett) — until she dies.

STOCKARD CHANNING, CANDICE BERGEN, KATHY BATES' SITCOMS

She is not the only legendary female comedian to return to TV soon,
NBC is developing a Stockard Channing sitcom pilot ME & MEAN
MARGARET (about a fearsome faded film and Broadway legend and the
unwitting boy lawyer who has to babysit her), Candice Bergen is to
topline sitcom PEARL (as a larger than life family matriarch who finds
out she has cancer, and becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating
every aspect of her family's life before she dies), while Kathy Bates
will lead sitcom DISJOINTED for Netflix as a mom who runs her own
marijuana dispensary with the help of her three sons!

'THE GREAT INDOORS'

OPENS ITS DOORS THURSDAY

But a multi camera sitcom to arrive to us as early as next Thursday is CBS comedy THE GREAT INDOORS which is set to premiere in primetime on October 27th with Joel McHaleportraying Jack who has made a name for himself as an adventure reporter for the magazine Outdoor Limits. His days of exploring the world end when the magazine's founder, Roland, announces its move to web-only publishing and assigns Jack to supervise the Millennials who make up its online team.

Stephen Fry will appear as Roland: an outdoorsman in his own right
and founder of the magazine!
Christopher Mintz Plasse as Clark: a tech nerd who knows everything
about surviving on Mars and a zombie apocalypse yet has not been out of
the city!
Christine Ko as Emma: the social media expert who views Jack as the
human version of dial-up!Shaun Brown as Mason: a hipster who has not spent any actual time
outside.
Susannah Fielding as Brooke: Roland's daughter and Jack's ex-girlfriend
and current boss.
Chris Williams as Eddie: Jack's best friend, who runs the local bar and
helps him understand his co-workers!

Well, if you weren't already looking forward to Disney's sequel to their celebrated classic MARY POPPINS RETURNS now you might because the latest British star to join the cast lead by Emily Blunt in the title role of the magical nanny is Colin Firth! In the movie set for Christmas 2018 release, he will be playing William Weatherall Wilkins, president of Fidelity Fiduciary Bank.

The story is set 25 years after the events of the first Mary Poppins
movie.following the now grown children from the 1964 original, Michael
and Jane Banks, who experience a personal loss that results in the
arrival of the magical Mary Poppins, who teams up with her lamplighter
friend Jack (Lin Manuel Miranda) to help the family. Directed by Rob
Marshall it will have Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer playing the grown
up kids.

TOM HARDY TO PLAY

LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPLORER SHACKLETON

He did quite a lot of epic movies so far, but according to 'Deadline' Tom Hardy is set to do a new one, and a cold one as well. He will play famous explorer Ernest SHACKLETON in a Studiocanal movie about the legendary adventurer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, although the polar explorer is best remembered in how he handled adversity. His ship Endurance was crushed by ice floes and he managed to keep everyone alive in a harrowing journey to safety in sub zero temperatures.

'EARLY MAN' ANIMATED FILM

TOM HIDDLESTON AND EDDIE REDMAYNE LEND VOICES

What a combo indeed: as 'The Hollywood Reporter' writes today our fave Hiddles in the world Tom Hiddleston will join another of our faves Eddie Redmayne in lending voices to Aardman's new animated movie EARLY MAN! It will be Oscar winner Nick Park's (Wallace and Gromit) first animated feature in more than a decade. In this prehistoric comedy adventure Hiddles will voice the ridiculously pompous Lord Nooth, governor of the Bronze Age town, a money loving tyrant and rival to the film’s Stone Age hero, Dug (Redmayne)!

EARLY MAN, set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and
woolly mammoths roamed the earth, tells the story of plucky caveman
Dug, along with sidekick Hognob, who unites his tribe against the mighty
Bronze Age in the first ever game of soccer. The movie, which is
currently shooting in Bristol and looking for a USA distributor, will be
released around Europe in 2018!

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

We're all space and science fiction today, starting with the news coming from British director Marc Munden who has just cast Joseph Gordon Levitt for his new sf thriller SOVEREIGN with Amy Adams' Arrival sf film producers doing this one as well!

SOVEREIGN
will see Joseph Gordon Levitt in the role of a man who, in
the wake of a fractured marriage, goes to find his wife and the entire
crew of a space station who have gone missing. As he explores the ship,
he discovers the truth about their disappearance and is forced to
confront his own role in losing her.

'GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2'

IS HERE! OBVIOUSLY!

Although the first one was rather mediocre at its best and not that much funny if at all, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY is getting its sequel and today you can watch first footage from it showing Chris Pratt as Star Lord and also Zoe Saldana doing a bit of flying with the Rocket Raccoon punching some walls. Set to be released into galaxy next May it will again be directed by James Gunn with Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell also making appearances in the sf adventure because, you know, the galaxy won't save itself.

We're talking all Netflix today, starting with the news coming from 'Variety' that Justin Theroux has joined Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard in their sf movie MUTE! To be directed by Warcraft helmer Duncan Jones the movie will see Skarsgard portraying a mute bartender in Berlin, 40 years in the future in what has become a roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West. His character will be looking for a woman who has disappeared — and when his search takes him deep into the city’s underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons seem to be the only recurring clue.

'GILMORE GIRLS' FINAL SEASON

SEASONAL POSTERS ARE HERE!

A treat for the ladies, today! Netflix has released the first four posters for their farewell four episodes for legendary GILMORE GIRLS series which will start airing all of its four new and last ever episodes from November 25th with each episode done in a form of a hour and a half long television episode set in four different seasons, so you will follow the important moments in Lorelai's (Lauren Graham) and Rory's (Alexis Bledel) lives in a spring, summer, autumn and winter setting (hence the title A YEAR IN LIFE), nine years after we last saw the events in Stars Hollow. As you know Lorelai is probably getting back together with Luke, Rory is pursuing her career in politics, and rumour has it one of them might be expecting a baby, but it might just be a rumour!

OLD CAST IS BACK It is interesting that all of the original cast members are returning
for the finale from Lorelai's best friend and business partner Sookie
played by Melissa McCarthy to her love played by Scott Patterson, her
mother played by Kelly Bishop, Rory's friends played by Keiko Agena and
Lisa Weil and the trio of her old boyfriends played by Milo Ventimiglia,
Matt Czuchry and Jared Padalecki! Yanic Truesdale returns as Lorelai's
concierge.